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Ad men today are wrong on body sizehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jul/31/susie-orbach-ad-men-wrong-on-body-size
Why Lynne Featherstone was right to celebrate curvaceous Christina Hendricks as a role model<p>Pity those who are rubbishing the equalities minister Lynne Featherstone's efforts to influence the style industry with her comments that Christina Hendricks, voluptuous star of Mad Men, is an ideal female role model. They must be denying what they know about the body-issue problems affecting their mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts or friends. We can see an unconscious pull to dismiss the initiative by telling it as a story of the minister's personal prejudices, her own desire to see curvaceous bodies become the new visual musak.</p><p>Of course that wasn't Featherstone's point at all. She was relishing Hendricks as a refreshing counterpoint to the homogeneity of female body image that we have been receiving and transmitting and attempting to emulate for several decades. She wasn't arguing for a new form of body tyranny.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jul/31/susie-orbach-ad-men-wrong-on-body-size">Continue reading...</a>WomenInequalityLynne FeatherstoneHealth & wellbeingAnorexiaFashionBeautyEating disordersChristina HendricksFri, 30 Jul 2010 23:06:28 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jul/31/susie-orbach-ad-men-wrong-on-body-sizePhotograph: Frank Ockenfels/AMC/PRChristina Hendricks, as seen in Mad Men, was held up as an alternative to the skinny aesthetic by equalities minister Lynne Featherstone. Photograph: Frank Ockenfels/AMCPhotograph: Frank Ockenfels/AMC/PRChristina Hendricks, as seen in Mad Men, was held up as an alternative to the skinny aesthetic by equalities minister Lynne Featherstone. Photograph: Frank Ockenfels/AMCSusie Orbach2010-07-30T23:06:28Z